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Except for the examination papers (sigwon), these documents are part of what had been bound into two collections titled the Seonjeogyupyeon (Compiled Records of Ancestral Traces) and the Sorok (Short Records). The Seonjeogyupyeon was compiled and named in 1943 by Ha Jeong-geun (1889–1973), who sorted by type the various documents left by his ancestors — calligraphy, elegies, memorial addresses, property-division deeds (bunjaegi), household registers and others — and bound them into four volumes. The Sorok is a bundle of various short records briefly setting out the background of the 'Jang Seok-han false-accusation case' of around 1718, together with a few other documents. The old documents held at the head house of Ha Hyeop, at Danji in Danmok-ri, Jinju, total 126 items: 109 extracted from the Seonjeogyupyeon — one excerpt of a royal edict, two royal certificates, one certified document (ipan), two official communications and notices, one examination pass certificate (joheulcheop), 22 property-division deeds, two deeds (myeongmun), 42 documents relating to household registers, 26 petitions (soji), one itemised list, five circular notices (tongmun), one list (danja), two attached deeds, and one preface (the Seonjeogyupyeonseo) — together with 10 various short records extracted from the Sorok, and 7 examination papers (sigwon). Not only are these documents extensive in quantity, but some are also highly significant as source material; in particular, the property-division deeds are more numerous and more varied in type than those held anywhere else. They span the period from the late sixteenth century to the end of the eighteenth century. Features such as the distinction between property inherited from the mother's side and the father's side, and the record of how the division of property was carried out anew after Ha Byeon (1581– ) was taken captive to Japan during the Imjin War and later released, are rarities not easily found in any other source. They also include a substantial number of documents relating to the incident in the late seventeenth century in which the printing blocks of the Nammyeongjip (the Collected Works of Nammyeong, i.e. Jo Sik) were destroyed. The old books and documents of the Danji head house provide a range of material showing how the Danji-gong branch survived as a leading local family and worked to preserve Nammyeong studies at a time of decline, following the fall of the Daebuk (Great Northerners) faction led by Jeong In-hong after King Injo's restoration.

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Region

Jinju, Gyeongnam

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산